Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1860 — Page 4

TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE , OF INDIANA. Fellow Democrats:. . For the first, time in the annals of our political history, we have two candidates tor the Presidency before the country, both claiming to be Democratic. For the first time" we have to engage in a contest tor the highest office in the gift of the People without a regular nominee. The Delegates sent to the late National Democratic Convention, returned to their constituents without accomplishing the object for which tliev were commissioned. Instead of compromising the'diffieulties resulting from the different -claims of the several candidates for President before that Convention, they broke up in wild disorder. Instead of uniting upon the ground ot principle, and presenting an united' front to the common enemy upon one Demo

cratic platform, they divided the Convention into two bodies and presented two platforms. Each body presented to the country candidates for President and Vice President, without either having received a regular nomination by a two-thirds vote. Each body presented these candidates contrary to the old established usages and systems adopted by the Democratic National Convention of 1844, and which have existed for the last sixteen years. One of these divisions presented the names of Joii.v C. Ureckinhipkk, of Kentucky, for President,'.. ami' Joseph Lank, lately of Indiana, but now of Oregon, for Vice President, The' other presented the names of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, for President, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of. Alabama, for Vice President. Mr. Fitzpatrick having declined, a sub-eonunmittee of the friends of Mr. Douglas at Washington substituted the name of Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, for the second olhVe. . As both of these tickets have come before the country without the prestige of a regular nomination, wiiieh one has the strongest claims to the support of the Democratic party ?. Let us reason together, as brethren of the same political family, having a .common' stake in the - welfare of our Union and in 'the support of Constitutional Government. . Shall we adhere to our National organization in the Union, or shaH we cling to the Stale organization? There is a divided house before us. One or the other, if not both division-, will fall. We intend to go with the National organization of the Democratic States, which presented the names of Bi:i:cKi.itiiur. and Lank, in preference to the see'.ionul organization of dclega:es liom the Republican Slates, which presented the names of Douglas 'ami Fitzpatrick. How will you go ? lVc intend to support the nomination made .by the fifteen Sou; hern Democratic States, together with California and Oregon, and a large munb'T of Democratiejlelegates from Pennsylvania. New York and otherNorth- . cni States, forming a National organization, in preference to the nomination made by the Delegates mostly from the Republican Slates of the North. Which one will you support? We will give you, as briefly as we can, the reasons which influence its in our course, in a plain and candid manner; and we trust that you, as National Democrats loving your country, your whole country, and no;hing butyour country, will give them your serious consideration. . In doing so, we shall ." neither extenuate nor set down aught in malice" against either of the candid ttes claiming to be. Democrats, although a sober and serious duty to the Democratic party will compel us to speak plainly of men and things, as well as of principles arid' measures. Why did not the National Democratic Convention make a regular nomination for President? hy did not two-think of the Convention unite upon one man for that high office, in tin- same manner a two-thirds of former Conventions united upon the nominations of Polk, Cass, Pierce, and Buchanan ? Because a majority of the delegates representing a minority of the 'States voted down, in the Convention, the Platform reported by the majority of the Committee on Iv'rolution', representing a majority of the members of the Confederacy." In thus voting down the Report adopted by a rn 'ijorily of Slates, they struck a blow against the principle ot States' -rights, which formed the basis of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 17SI8, drafted by Jefferson and .Madison, and incorporated in the Cincinnati Platform, as well as in every other Democratic Platform since the first organization of the Democratic party in 1800. Why did a majority of delegates, mostly from the HpuVican States, thus reject' the Platform adopted by a majority of S'ates, mostly Democratic t Because it contained the following propositions: 1. That the Government of a .Territory 'organized, by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during ifs existencc all citizensof the United Stales have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either in person or property, being destroyed by Congressional or Territorial legislation, 2. That it is the duty of the Federal Government," in all the Departments, when necessary, to protect the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else its Constitutional authority extends. 3. Tha f, when the settlers in a Territory, having an adequate population, form a State Constitution, the right of sovereignty commences, and being consummated by their admission into the Union, they stand on an equality with the people of other States, and a State thus organized ought to be admitted into the Federal Union, whether its Constitution prohibits or recognizes the institution of slavery. What is. there in the above propositions that any delegate, claiming to be a Demo rat, should vote against? Tnat the Government of a Territory, ov yinized by an act of 'ongress, is provisional and tempo -anj, we presume every citizen of the once Territory, and hot State, of Indiana, will admit. Have not all citizens of the United Stales an equal right to setttle, with their property, in the Territory, without their rights, cither in person or property, being destroyed by Congressional or Territorial legislation? The" Constitution of the United States, adopted by the several original States, in their s wrote State capacity, as a compact between them, places all their citizens, as well as all the States, upon an equal footing. It gives them all, according to the decision of the Supreme Court in the Died Scott case, an equal right to settle with their properly in the Territories. So far as this goes, BuECKlxuilxiK and Douglas agree. Hu cither Congress or the Territorial Legislature power to destroy their properly, no matter whether -it co.isists of slaves or horses, after . their settlement in the Territory, during- its provisional and temporary organization, under an act of Congress? Mr. BukckIXKiixiK holds, in accordance with the decision ot the highest judicial tribunal in the country, that neither Cingtvss nor the Territorial Legislature have such power under the Constitution. Mr. Lincoln, the Itepuhlkun candidate for President, asserts that Congress lias such power. .Mr. Douglas says that the Terriloria' Legislature possesses such power. Which one of tliese candidates is right? We believe that Mr. BltKCKlXKiotiK occupies the true position. We believe that he stands on Constitutional ground, and we think that he ought to be suported, not only because the Supreme Court of the United Stales has decided his position lo lie right, but because all the Democratic statesmen in loth Houses of Congress, who have sworn to support the Constitution, pledged themselves, as the representative men of the Democratic party, to abide the decision of that tribunal. We Ik lieve that it is our duty to sustain the great lody of Democratic representatives in Congress, bodi from the North and the South, in the pledge which they made upon this question. We believe that the honor of the Democratic partv is closely and indissolubly conneted with the acts of its representatives : and that disgrace would fall uMu any party that does not suvaiu its agents in their adherence to good faith, in carrying oat a pledge so solemnly made to supjtoit the decision of the Supreme Court But justice towards all our Southern brethren, w ho have stood shoulder to shoulder with us in to many contests, and who liave never infringed uon any of our Constitutional rights, compel us to say, that we cannot perceive any praclicd difference, in the portion taken by Mr. Liu'-oln ami Mr. Douglas on this question, so far as the rights and interests of the slave State are involved. Mr. Lincoln believe that Congress, the creator of the Territorial Government, can abolish slavery in the Territory, and thus destroy the Southern man's property in the labor of his .-laves. Mr. Douglas believes that the Territorial Legislature, the crealure of Congress u virtually do the same thing through " unfriendly legislation." He maintains tliat the creature can do what the Supreme Court savs its creator cannot do. He ass rts tliat the Territorial Lcgi-lature can tax slaves, like liquor, -o

high as to make the property unprofitable to its owner, and thus drive it out of the Territories; that they have the same, right to enact a law for the purpose of taxing slave labor beyond endurance as it has to' enact a 'Maine Liquor law. Mr. Douglas ought to know that the Supreme Court, of Indiana, as well as the judicial tribunals of other States has decided that even State Legislatures have no such power. If a State Legislature has no constitutional power to pass a Maine law, does it possess the power to authorize the Board of Commissioners in any comity, (a body created by the Legislature,) to do 'what it cannot ? Can the creature, in any case, exercise, constitutionally, more power than its creator J1 We say not. If Mr. Lincoln, who would abolish slavery in the Territories, directly by an act of Congress, is an Abolitionist, what is Mr. Douglas, who , , , ., .1 .. .. . .1-. 1... .... ... c

would o ine same- ining, uuuieeiiy, o uu. ucu ui -lum. Territorial Legislature ? Will not such legislation on the part of either Congress or the Legislature destroy the property of the slaveholders in the labor of their slaves? Will not such legislation violate the equal rights of the Southern people, and prevent them from settling in the". Territories ? Would its adoption be "doing unto others as we would have others do unto us?" . We' are not the advocates of slavery but we are the advocates and supporters of the great compact between the States which forms the basis of our Union. Judge Perkins, a friend of Mr. Douglas, lately said, in his Richmond speech " that a man or a party that will not support the Constitution is a ' disunionist.'" If one party violates a compact, he releases all the other parties from its observance. Can we expect our Southern brethren to adhere to the Union, if we, ourselves, first become "disunionists ? " Thejsame obligation rests upon us to adhere to the conditions of our National compact as bind our Southern brethren. They have their rights under it, the same as we have. Their blood and treasure contributed equally with our own in the conquest and purchase of all the Territory under the control of our common government. And truth and history, urge us to say that it, has all been added to our country under the administrations of Southern' men while those of Eastern men have uniformly opposed the annexation of Territory. Mr. Jefferson, a Southern man, annexed the Territory of Louisiana, w hich now embraces the States of Louisiana, Arkansas. Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska. Mr. Polk annexed Texas. California, New Mexico, Dacotah, and Utah, which will, in time, embrace at least twenty additional States.' Southern men in Congress aided those illustrious Presidents to annex these Territories by voting the means, contributed equally by the people of the South and North, to pay for all those, vast domains. A Southern State old Virginia after having contributed 1 er full share of men and money to carry on the Revolutionary war, made a free gift of all the' Northwest Territory, which now embraces Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, to raise means to pay off the debt incurred in that war.' Southern policy and Southern generosity have made land plenty and' cheap; and put it in the power of every poor and industrious man, whether of the North or South, to provide himself with a farm to sit under his own vino and fig tree." While Southern statesmen have ever been friendly to the acquisition of territory, Massachusetts and other New England statesmen' have ever opposed it. And shall we, who have reaped the largest share of the benefits and advantages of these acquisitions, turn our backs upon our benefactors, and say to them, thou shall not participate with us? Shall we say to the descendants of the noble-hearted Virginians who laid open to us all the land between the Ohio River and the Lakes, you shall not be equal with us in the Territories west of the Mississippi ? Shall we say to the gallant Kentuckians who came to our rescue in the days of our weakness, who fought our battle at Tippecanoe, and shielded .us from the tomahawk in our infancy, you shall not be equal with us there ? Shall we prohibit them from going into these Territories with their prnpr rig, or 'make, it useless to them, when there, by "unfriendly legislation" while we pclmit those vast speculating corporations of the East, tinder the name of New England Emigrant Aid Societies, to colonize those fertile" regions with their subservient squatters? Shall we permit the rich manufacturers of the East to go there with their labor-saving machines, designed to throw poor laboring men out of employment, and give them all the protection which the Constitution guarantees to property while we deprive, through the various arts of legislation, the people of the South of the same advantages? Shall we give: our countenance and aid to a privileged, class in this land of equal rights, which would have a tendency to oppress one portion of our fellow citizens for the benefit of another? : : We all recollect the rush into Kansas, some six years since, by the tools of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Societies. We all remember that a few hundred men, armed with Sharpe's lilies, seized upon not only the most fertile tracts of the best soil, but also upon every city and town site in that Territory. We all remember their depredations upon the rights of the Southern people, and the reports of strife and bloodshed which followed. Wc all remember the audacious conduct of the small band of New England Squatters, in setting up a government of their own superior to the Territorial government organized by the act of Congress, We all remember the Shoceo Springs Government and the Topeco Constitution, and all the other developments of 'Squatter Sovereignty" which were then made. Shall such scenes be played over again? Shall we give our assent to the overgrown capitalists of the East to extend their power over all the other Territories yet unorganized? Shall we allow them, through the instrumentality of small bodies of men, devoted to their interests, to avail themselves of the facilities of 'Squat'er Sovereignty," in acquiring the control of every Territorial Legislature, and give it the power which Congress itself does not possess, to trample upon the Constitutional rights of any section of the Union? Shall we permit the representatives of such small bodies of men in buckram, in the Territorial Legislatures, to possess more power than the Constitution gives to the National Legislature, representing the entire confederacy? No no. We cannot approve Mr. Douglas' policy of "Squatter Sovereignty," any more than we can Mr. Lincoln's Congressional Sovereignty. Both are hostile to the genius of our institutions and the equal rights of the People of all sections. Both are hostile to the equality of the Sales which compose our Union. Both are hostile to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which places all the States and all white men upon precisely the same footing. The next proposition advanced in the report of the Committee representing the majority of Stales is "that it is the duty of the Federal Government in all the departments, when necessary, to protect the rights of persons and properly in the Territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends." not this proposition a truism, requiring no argument to sustain it? What is government organized for, unless it is to protect the persons and property of the governed For what purpose do we send our squadrons and (leets to the Mediterranean and Pacific oceans, as well ns to the Gull of Mexico, but to protect the property of our merchants upon the high seas, as well as the lives of such of our people as are engaged in commerce? Will any one can any one seriously argue, that the agricultural classes of the South and North have not the same claims upon the Government for the protection of their persons and property recognized bv the Constitution, as the commercial class possess? Do not the agriculturists of the South contribute at least a much towanls the support of the (rovenimcnt as any other class? Do they not produce all the cotton, sugar and rice, much of the wheat and corn, and three-quarters of the tobacco that are exchanged for foreign goods, the duties on which pay three-fourths of its expenses? Ought they to meet their share of the burthens of the Government without participating in its benefits? No one can sincerely deny the force of such a self-evident projosition. But there are many who cannot meet the argument, in its favor, who will content themselves by denouncing an act. granting the protection sought for by our Southern b-ethren, as a "slave rode;" and yet they will not positively deny that the Constitution guarantees t ) them such an act, call it by whatever name they please. It now remains for us to look at the last proposition of the Committee representing the majority of the States. The question arises, whether any Territory should be admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original States, without an "adequate population?" Should any Territory, like Kansas was. (when a handful of emigrants from Massachusetts

under the patronage of the Aid Societies of New England, took possession of the soil and adopted the Topeca Constitution.) be allowed to set up squatter' sovereignty, call it, I State Government, and be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia or Indiana, with their several millions of inhabitants ? Every Territory should have a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle it to at least one Representative in the lower House of Congress before it should be recognized as a State. Then her popular sovereignty, in contradistinction from squatter sovereignty, should commence not before. Any number less than that for a ratio would soon fill the Senate with the representatives of squatter sovereignties create a rotten borough system, (like that of England,) and remove the political power from the many to the few. z.Wc have thus given our views and reasons in sup-, port of the Platform upon which John C. BheckinltnxiE and Jomki'H Lank are presented to the Democracy of the Union the whole Union as candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. They are true and tried friends of their country true and tried Democrats tried in peace and in war and have proved themselvesable in council and gallant in the field. While one was found among the heroes in the front ranks, and in the hottest ot the fight, bleeding in his country's cause on the battle-ground of Buena Vista, the other was among the victorious legions that, entered the halls of the Montezumas under fecott. Not a single sentiment of theirs can be brought against them to excite suspicion as to their loyalty to the Union not an act to prove disaffection to the Democracy. We wish we could say as much in favor of either Mr. Douglas or Mr. Lincoln. While the latter is an open and bold advocate of Abolitionism, and avows himself a supporter of the " irrepressible conflict" be.1 it . .1 I f. . - l..l 1 C.....1. 1,..

iween me tree auu siave ouues sn.iuowcu iunu u) Mr. Seward, which he says will end in the subjugation of the South the Territorial policy of the former cannot fail to keep up sectional agitation, contention and strife. Suffice it to say, that both of these candidates are so obnoxious to the South, that neither of them can receive the support of a single slave State; while it is certain that Mr. Douglas cannot obtain the electoral vote of any Slate in the Union. Wherever he has addressed the people in the free States, they have given jncreased majorities against the Democratic party. Wherever his friends have been presented for State offices, they have been defeated. The People, as well as nearly all the Democratic Representatives in both houses of Congress, appear to have no confidence in him. They have assembled together in large masses lo look at him and hear him; but they have not, as yet, given him a single State, North or South. What can be the cause of such a manifest want of confidence in Mr. Douglas? We say nothing of his personal traits of character; but truth and candor compel us to admit that his political course in the Senate has not been such as to entitle him to any further support from the Democratic parly. He has acted, and voted, for the last two years, more with the Republicans in that body than with the Democrats. He not only voted in favor of turning out of the Senate, Messrs. Bright and Fitch, the Democratic Senators of this State, but he volunteered his services to engineer Messrs. Henry S. Lane and McCarty, the bogus Republican candidates, into their seats. He thus struck a blow over the shoulders of Messrs. Bright and Fitch, at the Democracy of Indiana, who appointed them as their representatives, and in so doing sacrificed all claims upon them for support. But not satisfied with the indulgence of his private animosity towards these gentlemen, he has also been identified in intrigues and coalitions with the Republicans to turn out of the Senate General Lane, of Oregon, and Mr. Green, of Missouri, and to put into their seats two of the most notorious Republicans of those States, and thus contribute to the overthrow of the Democratic ascendancy in that body. .While thus engaged in these intrigues and coalitions, his house in Washington was turned into a caucus room for the Republican Senators and Republican editors, where overtures were made and given for mutual aid and comfort. The limits of this address will not admit of an exposure of all the political tergiversations of Mr. Douglas; but suffice it to say that he has lost the confidence of all his old Democratic associates, with one exception, in the Senate; and of nearly all the Democratic members of t he House, who have had an opportunity lo witness his recreant Course, and form a proper estimate of his delinquencies. .., We would gladly slop here, and confine ourselves to this manifest duplicity -and treachery of Mr. Douglas himself, towards the Democratic party of the nasion. But as if his intrigues with Republican leaders were not enough to damn him as the most unprincipled politician known to the country since the days of Mar-.; tin Van Buren, he has followed them up by open and bitter denunciations of Mr, BitfX'KiNiuixiK, and of other leading Democrats wherever he has made speeches. And w hile he has thus emptied the vials of his wrath upon men whose political records are without blemish, his leading friends in every State have been busily engaged in forming coalitions with the Know-Nothing party. These coalitions are now open, undisguised, avowed, and approved in nearly all the papers in Indiana favorable to his advancement. And while they are thus engaged in theirlauorsot love with the Know-Nothings, they have treated with silent contempt all overtures from the Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana representing the friends of BiiKCKiNiiiwiF. and Lank, for a union with them upon one Electoral ticket, made in order that the Democrats might present a united front to the Republicans, and thus save the State from the grasp of Lincoln. Is it not, then, apparent that Mr. Douglas' treachery, as well as his policy, aims, directly, at the dismemberment of the Democratic party ? Is it not evident, fo use the words he made use of in one of his intrigues with a Republican editor at Washington, that he has " checked his baggage," and " taken a through ticket" for the Opposition camp, and designs "cutting down the bridges" which now connect him with the Democracy, as soon as he can get the "crowd over" on the other side ? We apprehend, however, that if he should succeed in accomplishing this end, his success will be of short duration ; and that the " crowd " will all prove to be good swimmers, and speedily return to the Democratic shore. The signs of the times give note that the contest for the Presidency .is now between Bkkckinrioci-: and Lincoln. While Mr. Douglas' friends have not carried a single State in the Union, Mr. Brkckinriooe's friends have carried all the local elections in Delaware, Florida. Mississippi,- Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and lastly, where it was notexpected, in Maryland. There can be no doubt that the whole South is rallying in his (avor; and if New York elects the Union ticket, as is confidently hoped bv its friends, he will certainly be. elected. Will not. then, the gallant Democrats of Indiana come to the rescue, aid in the redemption of the State, ami unite, as of old, with the only National organization of the Democracy of the country, in favor of BiiF.f'KiNitiiiiiK. and Lam:? Let the true Democrats, organize in every school district, anil prepare for a vigorous onset against the Republicans in November. Let them, afljer the Presidential contest is over, still keep up their organizations for future elections for State, County and Town officers. If overthrown in the coming contest, let their watchwords be, " up and at it again." The true Democracy may fie defeated, but they can never be conquered. Bv order of the National Democratic Slate Central Committee of Indiana. W. H. TALBOTT, Chairman. John R. Ei.oku, Secretary. laiw mm haIjFa Forty acres of Government Land for sale, in Jasper' County. Indiana. Price 8 100, payable when John C. Breckinridge gets the electoral vote of Kentucky for President. Address Editor of Old Line Guard tf Wood For Sale! 200 CORDS. Price; 05 Cents a Cord St mile north i-n of the ril. utio'M hair a wile from th Crwfirdvnll.. flunk r"sl. will M li Hie ground. Iquire at llii" itlir... .iprll-If

THE COMPEOMISE REJTEOED, Wo publish below, in this number, the correspondence'of the Breckinridge and the Douglas State Central Committees, in relation to a Compromise Electoral Ticket. As our paper is about to go to press, we have neither time nor space for extended remarks. Indeed, comment is unnecessary. Our proposition is rejected. The Douglas men, by their action in this respect, proclaim to the world their preference for Abraham Lincoln as" the next President, of the United States! They put their refusal to accept our proposition upon the ground of want of authority. This is only a shallow excuse. Douglas Executive or Central Committees have no hesitation about their 'authority' to form coalitions with Know Nothings; but can fibd none to. adopt measures for binding up the broken fragments of the Democratic nartv. Their Committee in

Indiana assumed authority to instruct delegates to the I National Convention. Their National Committee, or ! a portion of it, met at the National Hotel, in Wash- ! ington, and assumed authority to NOMINATE a canI didale for the Vice Presidency ; but wheu it conies to i adopting a lino of policy by which alone the Democ- ' racy of this State can triumph, they skulk behind the ; plea of want of "authority." CORRESPONDENCE: iNDIANAl'OUiS, July 81, I860. Hon. N. B. Palmer, Chairman, tVc. At a Mass State Convention of the friends of Breckinridge and Lank, held in this city, this clay, among other resolutions, the following were adopted: Resolved, That whilst we disapprove of the platform of principles on which Mr. Douglas is now a candidate, we still regard it as less objectionable than that on which Mr. Lincoln is placed;'1 therefore, Resolved. That the Democratic Central Committee this day appointed, be authorized and requested to confer with the Central Committee appointed on the 11th day of January last, with the view to the organizing and running of one and a joint electoral ticket, on the following basis, to-wit: If the persons that may be jointly agreed upon for electors shall be elected, they shall cast the vote of this State for that one of the two candidates for President and Vice President Breckinridge and Lane, or Douglas and Johnson who it shall be found, after the election, is certain to receive the highest number of electoral votes from other States. That said committee be authorized, in their discretion, to agree upon the adoption of an entirely new electoral ticket, or the running of either of the present electoral tickets, or of a ticket composed of parts of the present electoral tickets, as may be thought most expedient. The electors who may be then agreed upon; pledging themselves, in writing, to cast the vote of the State (if elected) in accordance with this resolution. In discharge of the duty devolved upon us, we lose no time in1 submitting this resolution to you, in order that such action may be taken by you, and those associated with you on the committee appointed at the Convention held in this city on the 11th of January, as you deem proper. A reply at your earliest convenience is very desirable. Respectfully, --- W. II. .Talbott, Chairman, &c. 1st District, Jx. 15. Garoixek, 2d " L. Sparks, 3d " G !:. II. Kyle, 4th B. F. Mt i.i.EN, 5th " Alex. White, tith " John R. Elder, Ji lien Nk'olai, Jamks M. Tomlinson, James John-son, ' . 7th " James M. Oliver, ,8th " Thomas Wood, Oth " Thomas D. Lemon, 10th " G. F. R. Wadleigii, 11th " E. B. Thomas. . Indianapolis, Aug. 2, 1860. ! To W. II. Talbott, Esq., (Chairman,) and others I Gents: -Your communication of the Slst ult., acI companied by resolutions of the late Breckinridge meeting in this city, and asking the action of the DemI ocratie" Central Committee . upon' the propositions I therein contained, came to hand in proper time. I shall take the earliest opportunity to lay your communication before the Committee, Of which I have the honor of being Chairman. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, X. B. Palmer, Chairman Intl. Dem. Cen. Com. Indi anapolis, August 1 7, 1800. Hon. N. B. Palmer, Chairman, tVc; Sir Some fifteen days have elapsed since you acknowledged the receipt of my letter enclosing a resolution passed by the'Mtiss Suite Convention of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, held in this city July 31st, having for its object the running of one and a joint electoral ticket, thereby enabling us to secure harmony and success in our party in this State. No response ' having been made I feel constrained to respectfully call your attention again to this subject, and request an answer without further delay. Very respectfully yours, &c, W. II. Talbott, Chairman Intl. National Democratic Cen. Coin. Indianapolis, August 20, i860. Wm. II. Ta i.hott, Esq.: Sir Your letter of the 17th instant, calling my attention to your letter of the 31st July, covering certain resolutions of a Breckinridge meetin! held in this city on the 31st ult., is bej fore me. A meeting of the Indiana Democratic Cenj tral Committee was called for the 1 7th inst., but for ' some cause a full attendance was not accorded, and no : formal action taken on the subject presented in said resolutions. ! I may remark, however, that from correspondence : and interchange of views, it is ascertained that the ; members of the Central Committee appointed at the ; Indiana Democratic State Convention, held on the 11th January last, are unanimously of the opinion that they have no authority to act in the premises contemplatetl in your proposals. Verv respectfully, ! X. B. Palmer, I Chairman Ind. Dem. Central Committee. IOWA. Synopsi of the Proldcn I's Proclamation, No. (;o.-, dated August 14 I80O. IT orders public sales in the State of Iowa, ns follows; At the Land Office at Fort Dodge, on the 19th day of November next, of liftv townships and parts of townships heretofore unotfeicd, m the counties of Humboldt, Kos- ! surh, Bancroft, Pocahontas, Palo Alto and Emmctt. j At the Land Office at Sioux City, on the 26:h day of : November next, of fifty townships and parts of townships I heretofore tnioftercil, in the counties of Palo Alto, Km- ! mett, Dickinson, Osceola and ltuncome. ! The lands will be offered with the usual exceptions of ' school section, &e., Sc. The ales will lie kctit open until the lauds are all of fered, which i to be accomplished within two weeks, nnd no longer; and no private entry of any of the lands will ! i be admitted, until after the expiration of the two weeks. Pre-emption elaiiunnts arc required to c-tal!ish lliiir, : claims to the satisfaction of the proper lcgi.-tcr Mini Rc- ; ceiver. and make payment for the same on or before the : dav appointed for the commencement of the public sales, j otherwise their claim will !e forfeited. ' JOS. S. WILSON, 1'tnflmissionrv rt the General I jnnd tljhvr. General Land Office, Ssptem'icr 7, l6u. Sept. 20 lOw . - wants to ii:k Iiae. THK AUVERTISBK WASTSTO PVRCHSK, Twi -r 111 re pair f Boots, A H rut rtu ;.l,l 'm It'll. Onr tir m nit of ( l'.tftr. Twn or three Hat. Almo(tnv kind of Ory Oo.J, A .No. I Drt-tMi'f norcau. A Aral ratt. Sprinjr .Xattras?, A r"l Sofa. A rood Turprt. 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BV AUTHORITY. . HI I IV IN' IS S O T A . KyuMki of the I'lciitlcni' Proclamation, No. i;!4i (luted July T, 1HOO.

J T orders public sales in the Stalo of Minnesota, as folL lows : At the, Land Olfuo of St. Cloud, on the inth day of October next, of fifty .seven townships and parts of townships heretofore unotfered in the comities of Wright, Stearns, Meeker, nnd Davis. At the Land Olliee at St. Clouo, ou the 29th day of October next, of twenty-fivo townships and parts of towifships heretofore unollered in the counties of Sherburne, Benton, Morrison, mid Crow Wing. At the Land Olliee at Foitusr City, on the 22d day of" October next, of fifty-three townships nnd parts of townships heretofore unoHcrcd in the counties of Hennepin, Carver, Wright, McLeod, Meeker, and Davis. At the Land Office at IIknoekson, on the 15th day of October next, of fifty townships and parts of townships heretofore, unotfered in the counties of Goodhue, Dacotah, Hice, Scott, Lescur, Nieolct, and Sibley. At the Land Olliee at St. Petkh, on the 22d day of October next, of sixty-one. townships mid parts of townships in the counties of Wnhasliaw, Olmstcad, Goodhue, Dodgo, Rice, Steele, Wauseca, Blue Earth, Leseur, Kbobit, and Brown. At tlio Land OfhVc at St. Peter, on the 5th day of November next, of all the vacant tracts in the even-number sections and parts of sections within six miles on each side of the parts of "the Southern Minnesota," the "Minneapolis and Cedar Valley," and "Transit" Railroads, within the district of lands subject to sale at St. Peter. At the Land Olliee at Chatfikld, on the 29th day of November next, of sixty-four townships and parts of townships in the counties of Winona, Fillmore, Olmstcad, Mower, Dodgo, Freeborn, Steele, Wauseca, and Faribault. At tho Land Olliee at Ciiatfield, on fho 12th day of November next, of all the vacant tracts in the even-numbered sections and parts of sections within six miles on each side of the. parts of the "Minneapolis and Cedar Valley," the "Transit," and the "Root River Valley" Railroads, within the district of lands subject to sale at Chatlicld. At the Land Olliee at Scnhise City, on the 22d day of October next, of forty-five townships and parts of townships heretofore uiiofl'ered in the counties of Buchanan, Chisago, Isanti, Anoka, Mille Lacs, Sherburne, Benton, and Aiken. At the Land Office at Portland, on the 15th day of October next, of twenty townships and fractional townships heretofore unotfered in the counties of Lake and St. Louis. The lands will be offered with the usual exceptions of school sections,- &c. ' . . : - Tho evcn-ntunbci-cd. sections within six miles on each side of the Railroads will be offered subject, as required by law, to a minimum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre. The sales will be kept open until the lands are nil offered, which is to bo accomplished within two weeks, and no longer; and no private entry of any of the lands will be admitted until after the expiration of tho two weeks. Pie-cmptiun claimants arc required to establish their claims to the satisfaction of the proper Register and Receiver, and make payment for tho same on or before the day appointed for the commencement of the public, sales, otherwise their claims will be forfeited. JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner of the General Land Office. General Land Office, August 17, I860. Sept. 1 12w, 1 a week. A . i: it ic a s ii .4 . Synopsis of I lie President' 1'rni tarnation, Tio. mm, dated April ). 1,1,1). IT orders public sales in the Territory of Nebraska, as follows : At the land office at Bhownsvii.i.e, on the 6th day of August next, of twenty-six townships, heretofore tinoffered, in the comities of Jones and Saline. , At the land office at Brownsville, on the 20th day of August next, of twenty-four townships,1 heretofore unotfered, in the counties of Fillmore and Jefferson. . At the laud otliec at Neiiraska City, on the 13th (fay of Augnst next, of twenty-eight townships and fractional townships, heretofore unoflcrcd, in the counties of Clay, Lancaster, Calhoun, Saline, Greene and Butler. At the land office at Nebraska City, on the 27th day of August next, of twenty-seven townships and fractional townships, heretofore unotfered, in the counties of Saline, Greene and Butler. At tho land office at Omaha City, on tho 13th day of August next, of thirty-three townships and fractional townships, heretofore unoflcrcd, in the counties of Piatt, Izard and Cuming. . At the land office atDECOTAii City, on the 6th day of August noxt, of forty townships and fractional townships, heretofore unofTcrcd", in the counties of Cedar, Dixon, Pierce and Qui Court. At tho land ofiieo at Decotah City, on the 20th day August next, of thirty-seven townships, heretofore tinoffered, in the counties' of Pierce and Qui Court. The lands will be offered with the usual exceptions of school sections, &c, tc. The sales will be kept open until the tho lands aro all off ered, which is to be accomplished within two weeks, and no longer, and no private entry of any of the lands will bo admitted until after the expiration of the two weeks. Pre-emption claimants arc required to establish their claims to the satisfaction of the proper Register and Receiver, and make payment for the same on or before the day appointed for the commencement of the public sales, otherwise their claims will he forfeited. JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner of the General Land Office. General Land Olliee, June 14, 15fi0. July 24-Cw, 1 a week. Ii A IV S A s. Synopxis of the President'! l'rol;i inn I ion , rVo, Gj!) dated April 20, I SCO. IT orders public sales in the Territory of Kansas, as follows: At the land office at Junction City, on the Gth day of August next, of forty townships and parts of -town-hips, heretofore nnolt'ered, in the counties of . Mnr.Oinl) and Washington. At the land otlice at Junction City, on the 20th dny of August next, of thirty-three townships, heretofore unoflcrcd, in the counties of Clay and Diekison. At the bind otlice at Junction CiTY.on the IOtli day of September next, of thirty-four townships and fractional townships, heretofore unoflcrcd, in the counties of AViso and Under. At the land office ut Fort Scott, on the 13th day of August next, of twenty-live townships and parts of townships, heretofore unotfered, in the counties of Anderson, Codec, Madison and Butler. The lands will be offered with the usual exceptions ot school sections, &c, &c. The sales will be kept open until the lands are all offered, which is to Im; accomplished within two weeks, and no longer, and no private entry of any of the bands will tic admitted until afar the expiration of the, two weeks. Pre-emption claimants arc required to establish their claims to the satisfaction of the proper Register and Receiver, and make payncnt for the same nn or before the .lay appointed for the commencement of the public sales, otherwise their claims will be forfeited. J()S. S. WILSON, Comnn'ssiofier of the General Land Office. General Land Office, June, 14, 1860; July 24-6w, 1 a week. l ulled M tiles I'sitont Olliee. Washington, Augnst 11, 18G0. 0 the petition of Geo. W. Culp, of Allensville, Indiana, proving for the extension of a patent granted to him on the 14th of November, 1846, for ou improvement in " Cider Mills," for seven yearn from the expiration of said patent, w hich takes place on the 14th day of November, l'-GO. It is ordered, that the said petition !e heard at the Patent Office on MONDAY, die 29tli of OCTOBER nexi, nt 12 o'clock, M. ; and nil persons are notified to appear and ;diow ennse, if any they have, why snid petition ought not to be granted. Persons opposing the extension an' required to rile in the Patent Office their objections, especially set forth in writing, at fcat twenty days before the day of hearing ; all testimony filed by either party to be used t the said hearing must 1 taken and traii-mitted in accordance with the rules of the office, which will be fnmihcd on application The testimony in the ease will be closed on the 16th of October; depositions and other papers relied npon a.s testimonv must be filed in the office on or before the moraine of that dav; the arguments, if any, within ten day thereafter. Ordered, aW.thnt this notice he published in the Constitution, Wa.-hingtf ,n. D. C. and " Old Line Guard," Indianapolis, once a week, for three weeks the first of said publi-arions to I nt least sixty days before the 29th of October next the dav of hearing. rmur f. thomas, naglSJw Commissioner of Patents.